# Harry Potterish
## English
### Alternative forms

* Harry Potter-ish, Harry Potter–ish, Harry-Potter-ish, Harry-Potterish

### Etymology

From Harry Potter +‎ -ish.

### Adjective

Harry Potterish (comparative more Harry Potterish, superlative most Harry Potterish)
* Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.
** 2001 April 30, Christopher John Farley, “The Garage Door Opens”, in Time:Last summer interest in U.K. Garage reached Harry Potterish levels in Britain (David’s debut CD alone went six times platinum); […]
** 2002, Judith Cutler, Hidden Power, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 204:‘[…] Oh, you could be something Harry Potterish.’ ‘Or maybe . . . Yes! If I could find the gear, I could go as a character from that book I’ve been reading to them. […]’
** 2003 January, DMag, number 11, page 86:In Not Just a Witch, Heckie has just finished Witches’ School where all the witches learn how to make the world a better place. Sound a bit Harry Potterish? It is, but it came before the J.K. Rowling adventures began.
** 2004, Patricia J. Williams, Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 11:All this is to say that the night after the dinner party from hell, I had a redemptive, Harry Potterish sort of dream.
** 2004, Jessica Porter, The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and Fabulous Body, New York, N.Y.: Avery, →ISBN, page 55:This time, my mind stayed centered in my body, getting off on the scents in the air, the mysterious, mystical copse of Harry Potterish pines in the middle of the hike, and the curious looks on the faces bf the cows.
** 2004 September 15, “Conference call”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 16 September 2014:On the one hand this attention has brought the promise of extra funding - though few at the Universities UK annual conference in the Harry Potterish surroundings of Keble College, Oxford believe that undergraduate fees of up to £3,000 a year from 2006 are the magic wand to solve their problems.
** 2005, Kathrine K[ristine] Beck, Snitch, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88:He hoped that the rumour about the Canadian school with neckties was true. How bad could that be? It sounded kind of Harry Potterish.
** 2005, Vivienne Parry, The Truth About Hormones, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, pages 12 and 55:There is something rather Harry Potterish about them: they can suddenly appear in huge quantities or alternatively disappear. […] Remember that receptors are Harry Potterish, appearing and disappearing.
** 2005 December 8, Brooke Nevils, “Brining Potter’s lessons to campus”, in The Johns Hopkins University News-Letter, volume CX, number 13, the students of The Johns Hopkins University, page B4, column 1:I had no idea what was going on until I heard one of my roommates ordering my other roommate back into her room to change into something that was more “Harry Potterish.” Somehow, I managed to tear myself away from my Middle East Politics paper to discover the two of them uncontrollably hyper and wearing head-to-toe gold and burgundy. The new Harry Potter movie was opening at midnight, and they had picked up tickets a week in advance.
** 2006, Hywel Williams, Britain’s Power Elites: The Rebirth of a Ruling Class, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 130:A visit to any favourite legal drinking den, El Vino’s, say, in Blackfriars, Daly’s Wine Bar on the Strand, or Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese beside Gough Square, confirms immediately the peculiar Harry Potterish sociality of the Bar – its abiding clubbishness which confirms belonging while also asserting exclusion.
** 2006, Benedict le Vay, Eccentric Cambridge: The Bradt City Guide, Bradt Travel Guides; The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 116:It was where the Glomerels studied Glomery – no, I’m not making this up but it does sound Harry Potterish (or the other way round) – which was a corruption of grammarye or Latin grammar.
** 2006, Francis Paul Wilson, Harbingers, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 81:“Do not name him. He knows when his name is spoken and seeks out the speaker.” Jack had heard this before. It struck him as Harry Potterish, but he respected the sources and so he abided.
** 2007, Marianne Faithfull, Memories, Dreams & Reflections, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 53:I, of course, did not tell Kenneth what I’d done – burning his letter at a wayside shrine – because in some Harry Potterish way he could have made a counter curse to that, too.
** 2007 August 9–15, “The war on fun: “Family-friendly” is really a code word for “adult-hostile””, in See Magazine, number 715, page 7, column 3:I looked up to find an arc of almost-teens around me in Harry Potterish garb. A couple of adults appeared, in robes, pointed hats, and affected accents, beckoning the children to follow closely through this “dangerous” space.
** 2008, Terry Marsh, Frommer’s Ireland with your Family: From Vibrant Towns to Picnic Perfect Countryside, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:Pitch it right to the children, and ‘Taking a walk through a graveyard’ takes on a Harry Potterish aura, and Ireland offers you plenty of chances to do just that.
** 2009, Leigh Bridger, Soul Catcher, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 100:I flung out one hand at them. I didn’t have time to think of catchy phrases. No Die Hardish Yippee ki yay motherfuckers or Harry Potterish wand waving Or Bewitched inspired nose twitches.
** 2010, Mary Hanlon Stone, Invisible Girl, Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 193:The only thing that keeps me from sheer madness is that Mr. Specter looks like a wizard. He has a severe comb-over of thin, dyed red hair and long yellow teeth. I’d love to leap up, stick my pencil out like a wand and yell something Harry Potterish, like, “Expelliderus!”
** 2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 1501–1502:Buildings date back to 1924 (when they were home to the local senior girls school) consequently there is lots of wood-panelling (slightly Harry Potterish feel to some of it) but, more importantly, lots of dedicated space.
** 2010 September 20, David Guaspari, “Republicans in Ithaca”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 16, number 1, page 19, column 2:MapQuest displays it in a place where I’m sure no street exists. The Harry Potterish mystery has a boring resolution; an apartment building called Sheldon Court sits where, presumably, a cul de sac of that name once existed.
** 2011, Steve Rasnic Tem, “Death and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:At least one critic has complained that this is a Harry Potterish portrayal of Death, and I must admit that from time to time I found myself wishing this Death had a bit more edge.
** 2011, Craig Stevenson, John Mackay, The Cheap Way Round, East Kilbride: Cheapwayround Publishers, →ISBN, page 78:As it was the platform number for the Ardrossan train was given as 11A. That sounded a little Harry Potterish to me but there really was such a platform. I have to report that it was far from magical.
** 2011, Steven Manly, Visions of the Multiverse, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page Books, →ISBN, pages 21–22 and 93:Tegmark’s story sounds a bit like something I read in one of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. In fact, much of what you’re about to read concerning the multiverse will seem a bit Harry Potterish. You will find it stretching your imagination. A few of the multiverse concepts described in this book are perhaps as fictitious as the Harry Potter series, […] This little apparent loophole in energy conservation provides a strange, Harry Potterish avenue to an understanding of the forces of nature via a theoretical framework known as quantum field theory.
* Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.
** 2002, Kate Fenton, Picking Up, Flame, →ISBN, page 104:That bespectacled, Harry Potterish face, frowning earnestly at the assorted jumble of Ben’s computer, stirred the soppiest memories in my breast of the days when my son had himself been just such a pink-cheeked cherub.
** 2003, Jill Mansell, Falling for You, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 80:His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.
** 2004, Nicola Morgan, Chicken Friend, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 40:I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.
** 2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 199:Tina points to a Harry Potterish lightning bolt on her chin.
** 2007, Robert D[avid] Kaplan, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 307:These were round, Harry Potterish, horn-rimmed glasses of zero prescription which increasingly strengthened as you pumped a clear gel solution attached to the frame inside the glass.
** 2009, Noel Hynd, Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy; 3), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 365:He was tall, reed-thin in a heavy coat, and absurdly Harry Potterish with round glasses and an owlish gaze.
** 2009, Tarras Wilding, Leopard Rock, Little Black Dress, →ISBN, page 115:The core Tangent group would be joined for the next four nights by the visiting crew from Jo’burg: […] Juan the make-up man, surprisingly (and disappointingly, for Guy at least, as he was tall and rather gorgeous in a Harry Potterish way) straight.
** 2010, Susan Fletcher, Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (The Dragon Chronicles), Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 181:He was maybe a fifth- or sixth-grader. Kind of early Harry Potterish. Short and skinny. Glasses. Short, dark hair that cowlicked in the back.
** 2011, Angie Smibert, Memento Nora, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 28:It was him, only more so. The curls were wilder and darker. The glasses were not as Harry Potterish.

#### Synonyms

* Harry Potteresque, Potteresque